Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life doesn't hang on the result of a basketball game, but it seems like it when you play Rupp." Rupp himself cares little about the effect his self-centered personality has on others. Says he: "I am not engaged in a popularity contest. I want to win basketball games." So far this season, Kentucky has won them all in tough competition, e.g., St. Louis, West Virginia, Maryland, at week's end ran its record to 11-0 by dumping Georgia Tech...
Eames under his wing at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy 20 years ago, and from then on Eames climbed a ladder of his own designing, as tall as the one which he keeps in his own living room so that, on impulse, he can hang something new from a ceiling, or rearrange objects on a wall...
...semi-articulate anthropoids stumbling between sets and grunting their soliloquies; all the varied fare of trash and tedium which passes for tragedy on the Stage of the Common Man--then check your despair at the door. A great play given a great production has come to Broadway; one must hang out all the old abused superlatives and this time mean them...
Medical schools are hard places to get into, and an undergraduate headed for one is likely to load himself with courses in the hard sciences and let the humanities go hang. The result: U.S. doctors, as conversationalists, are apt to be excellent physicians. But the climate of opinion in medical schools is changing. A report issued last week by Harvard University indicates that potential physicians need not insulate themselves from the liberal arts, and in some cases may hurt their chances by doing...
...take a stand on the issue of self-determination for the Formosans, and predicted that "the pull of the mainland will eventually be a very powerful one." If China continues to expand industrially and increase its national power, he said, "it will become too hot for us to hang on to Taiwan in the future...